Business Owners Archives - Bookkeeping-Cloud Accounting-AIS Solutions

How Giving Back Moves Your Company Forward

Business Owners, Business Strategy, Goals

When you run a small business, the day-to-day challenges and sales and production targets often keep you so occupied that the only time you really think about taxes is when they are due.

14 March

Practical Tax Advice To Save Small Business Owners Money

Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Owners, Business Strategy, Business Tax

When you run a small business, the day-to-day challenges and sales and production targets often keep you so occupied that the only time you really think about taxes is when they are due.

7 February

Attention: Entrepreneurs – Rethink Your Mainstream Attitude about Compliance

Bookkeeping, Business Challenges, Business Owners, Business Strategy

No matter where you operate your small business in Canada or the United States, there are government standards of compliance required that govern everything from the kind of financial records you need to keep to how you produce and measure certain products and services, what you pay your employees, and how you create a safe […]

1 November

How to Handle Both Good and Bad Customer Reviews

Business Owners, Business Strategy, Goals

The last time you booked accommodations online, did you read the reviews? If you are a stranger in a community and planning to dine out, when you call up the restaurants in your area, do you base your choice on the comments past customers have left online about it? If you do, you are not […]

16 October

How to Stop Making Stupid Business Decisions

Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Owners, Business Strategy, Finances

Several times each year at AIS Solutions, we get a shock when new clients show up with their financial data a disorganized mess. Receipts are crumpled into plastic bags or jammed into the proverbial shoeboxes. Yes, shoeboxes are real. 🙂 When they tell us why they have finally sought bookkeeping and accounting assistance to organize […]

2 October

How to Run a Business With Your Spouse

Business Challenges, Business Owners, Business Strategy

My wife and business partner, Juliet Aurora, and I have worked side-by-side for many years. We believe that for the most part we have done it successfully, but it took having AIS Solutions win Intuit’s Global Firm of the Future contest to have a broader world recognize it. What we have learned as “couple-preneurs” is […]

25 September

What’s the Difference Between a Bookkeeper and an Accountant

Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Owners, Business Strategy

For many small business owners, in fact most laypersons outside of the world of business and finance, the terms bookkeeper and accountant blend into a hazy configuration of people who handle the numbers of business. It is like a riddle. If a bookkeeper keeps books, and an accountant accounts for accounts, what is the difference […]

29 August

The Benefits Of Hiring A Bookkeeping Firm Over A Solo Bookkeeper

Bookkeeping, Business Challenges, Business Owners

There is no question that selecting a bookkeeper can be daunting and in a perfect world, the freelancer will tell you right if she or he is capable of doing the job you need. But that is not always the case.

2 August

When is it Time to Incorporate Your Business?

Business Challenges, Business Owners, Business Strategy, Business Tax

To Incorporate or not to Incorporate? That is the question. For most small businesses, the question of if and when the company should be incorporated is one that should be considered at regular intervals.

26 July